Witten gymnastics community from 1848

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Gymnastics community Witten from 1848
(TG Witten)
Club logo
purpose Sports club
Chair: Jörn Stratmann
Sebastian Böhm
Antje Simone Strate
Jessica Kowalewski
Julian Dickow
Frank Brzezina
Establishment date: 1848
Number of members: approx. 1000 (as of 2018)
Seat : Jahnstrasse 11
58455 Witten, Germany
Website: www.tgwitten.de
Jahn sports grounds with Jahnplatz, indoor tennis center  1, matchball club and tennis courts 1–3; on the right in the background the Bogestra depot

The gymnastics community Witten from 1848 ( TG Witten ) is a sports club founded in 1848 in Witten . It is predominantly a popular sports club with offers from tennis to basketball to karate , but also actively participates in competitive sports through the TG Witten triathlon team .

history

Commemorative sheet for the 50th anniversary of the gymnastics community; in the background the Helenenturm

Foundation and early years

Gymnastics has been practiced in Witten since at least 1846 . That year Theodor Müllensiefen set up a first, private gym near his private school at Crengeldanz , on the site of the current private cemetery in Müllensiefen . The gymnastics community was founded in 1848 by 13 people, including the later industrialist and politician Louis Constanz Berger as a gymnastics club in Witten . The establishment was preceded by a visit to the 1st Märkisch-Westphalian singing festival in Iserlohn in 1846, including exhibition gymnastics. Shortly before it was founded, the first edition of the Witten weekly newspaper Wittekind in 1848 published an appeal to found a gymnastics club. The association's founders were presumably influenced by the ideas of the March Revolution in 1848 . The first statute was completed in 1848 . They met weekly, and in 1849 gymnastics began on a leased plot of land that had been converted into a gymnasium. The schools of the various denominations ( Protestant , Catholic and Jewish ) were offered to use the gymnasium. In the house Witten a room was rented in the fencing were operated and calisthenics. A first club magazine Der Turner was distributed to the members. In the same year the club renamed itself to Wittener Turngemeinde von 1848 and joined the German Gymnastics Federation , which was also founded in 1848 . The lease was terminated in 1949. The gymnastics community was able to lease the area and hall of another farm . The planned introduction of swimming lessons in the Ruhr failed when a previous gymnast drowned in 1850. The club flag was presented at the first gymnastics festival in 1850 . Superintendent Friedrich August König , the pastor of the Johanniskirche , reported those responsible for the gymnastics festival in 1850 for allegedly desecrating Sunday, which ended in a symbolic penalty of one taler .

The royal district administrator of Bochum dissolved the gymnastics community in 1852, but it was re-established in the same year under the new name Wittener Turnverein . In addition to gymnastics, other initiatives were developed, such as B. to an association's own book collection . After several renaming, the name Turngemeinde was adopted again in 1862 . In 1963, the city of Bochum invited the gymnastics associations of the surrounding cities to attend an extinguishing device exercise by the Bochum Turner fire department . After attending this demonstration, a gymnast fire brigade was set up within the gymnastics community in 1863 , the forerunner of the Witten fire brigade . It formed a "club within a club" with its own board, which, however, had to be confirmed by the board of the gymnastics community. In 1863, the men's gymnastics club, founded in the same year, joined the gymnastics community. After problems related to alcohol consumption , the gymnast fire brigade was re-established in 1868, also again within the gymnastics community. The older fire brigade was no longer allowed to use municipal fire fighting equipment and the syringe house . After 1869, the general gymnastics club in Witten split off from the Witten gymnastics club . Both clubs reunited in 1872 to form the gymnastics community of Witten from 1848 . In 1873 Turngemeinde and the city of Witten signed a contract to build a gym . The gymnastics community transferred a gym building fund and gymnastics equipment to the city and received usage rights to the hall and equipment. In 1873 the foundation stone was laid on Kurzen Strasse (today Synagogenstrasse ). The gym was not completed until 1879. In 1877 eight Jewish members resigned from the gymnastics community, since the foundation festival in 1877 coincided with Yom Kippur , and founded the Witten gymnastics club in 1877 . The gymnastics community rejected the discussion about the transfer of gymnastics equipment to the Witten gymnastics club. In 1879 the gymnast fire department and the volunteer fire department were separated and the gymnast fire department was disbanded. At the foundation festival in 1888, a festival Gut Heil! about Friedrich Ludwig Jahn and the establishment of the gymnastics community.

Berger memorial

Berger monument on the Hohenstein

The chairman of the gymnastics community Friedrich Wilhelm August Pott suggested in 1891 the erection of a monument on the Hohenstein for the co-founder of the gymnastics community Louis Constantz Berger . In 1897 a committee for the construction of a monument was set up under the chairmanship of Mayor Gustav Haarmann . In the years 1901 to 1904 the construction of the 21 m high observation tower made of Ruhr sandstone took place . Today it is a landmark of the city and belongs to the route of industrial culture with the theme route 12: Past and present of the Ruhr .

1918-1933

In 1920 the gymnastics community acquired a former brick factory on Sandstrasse and built its first own gymnastics area Jahnplatz on it, which was completed by 1922. The tennis department was established in 1922. In 1924 a section of Sandstrasse was renamed Jahnstrasse (after Friedrich Ludwig Jahn). The gymnastics community's first own gymnasium was built in wood in 1925 on Jahnplatz . The first two tennis courts followed in 1928.

1933-1945

Since 1933, the chairman of the association had to be a member of the NSDAP if possible. The chairman of the association had to confess to the National Socialist government and appointed the remaining members of the board. The paramilitary sports of military gymnastics and off-road sports were introduced. The school department of the gymnastics community had to be dissolved in 1936 and given to the German Young People . In 1939 the gymnastics community was merged with the Eintracht Witten gymnastics club . At the end of the Second World War , the Jahnplatz was converted into an anti-aircraft position . A bomb attack on Witten in 1945 destroyed the first gymnasium and a large part of the club's archive . Numerous bomb craters were later removed.

After the end of the Second World War, the English military government dissolved member associations of the German Reich Committee for Physical Exercise and demanded that all associations be brought together. NSDAP members from before 1933, cell leaders and higher NSDAP party functionaries and SS and SA men were no longer allowed to be members. Ordinary NSDAP members could remain members, but no longer hold any office. Eduard Schröder , the chairman of the gymnastics community, had to resign, but remained a member. Popular sport should be placed on a uniform, democratic basis. Two collective associations, "Witten-West" and "Witten-Ost" were formed.

Karate : Fritz Nöpel , 9th  Dan on a course of the TG 2010

Since 1945

In 1946 the Witten gymnastics community was re-established from 1848 . A fencing department was set up in 1951. In 1950 a tennis home and a tennis hall were built. The gym was rebuilt in 1952 and named after Eduard Schröder , the 1st chairman from 1939 to 1945 and 1954 to 1957, who had to resign in 1945 because of his membership in the NSDAP. In 1952 the table tennis department of Witten FC 92 also joined the TG. In 1955 the lawn of the sports field was renewed, the running track was extended and the Jahn sports area was completed. On the occasion of the 110th anniversary, the largest athletics festival ever held in Witten took place in 1958 on Jahnplatz . In the 1950s and 1960s, the gymnastics community achieved some success in athletics. The field handball team of the gymnastics community rose in 1958/59 to the Oberliga Westfalen (at that time the highest division in Germany) and was able to hold there until the 1965/66 season.

Since the maintenance of the Jahnplatz exceeded the funds of the association, the gymnastics community sold the square to the city of Witten in 1973. Only the tennis courts remained in the possession of the TG. The gymnastics community undertook to use the sales proceeds to build a prefabricated sports hall , which, after completion, should also become the property of the city. The first tennis hall was built in 1973, the clubhouse in 1976, a second tennis hall in 1977. The new Jahnsporthalle and the older gymnasium were used for school sports . In 1999 a karate department was set up ( Gōjū-Ryū Yuishinkan ), and in 2004 a basketball department. 2005, the 2003 from the completed PV Triathlon Witten emerged and in competitive sports active Triathlon Team Witten to the gymnastics community. The gymnastics community has been cooperating with the University of Witten / Herdecke since 2008 , so that students can take part in the sports facilities of the gymnastics community at a discount.

On July 22, 2015, the city of Witten converted the part of the Jahnsport area around the two Jahnhallen into an emergency shelter for 158 refugees . For this occasion, the site was provided with free internet access via Freifunk .

Sports offer

Jahn sports area with Jahnplatz and tennis courts 4–9, in front of that tennis hall 2

Today's offer includes basketball , darts , recreational football , historical fencing , inline hockey , karate , running , Nordic walking , tennis , table tennis , triathlon , gymnastics , walking and water aerobics .

Triathlon team TG Witten

The Triathlon Team TG Witten is the triathlon department of the gymnastics community. It emerged in 2005 from the Triathlon Team Witten (TTW), which in turn was formed in 2003 by splitting off a large group of triathletes, including sporting director Richard Gutt and the then Bundesliga squad, from the PV Triathlon Witten . Both the right to start the 1st Triathlon Bundesliga and the main sponsor at the time, Asics , switched to TG Witten. With the Stadtwerke Team Witten ( Asics Team Witten until the end of 2010 ) it took part in the 1st Triathlon Bundesliga, World and European Championships and the Olympic Games . Every year it organizes the Witten Uni-Run and the Ruhr Valley Triathlon .

With five championship titles for men and 10 for women (record winners) in the triathlon federal league, it is one of the most successful triathlon clubs in Germany.

For the Stadtwerke Team Witten or Asics Team Witten start or start u. a. Faris Al-Sultan , Nils Frommhold , Ewa Komannder , Kathrin Müller , Lisa Nordén , Maik Petzold , Christiane Pilz , Christian Prochnow , Ina Reinders , Maxine Seear , Thomas Springer , KATRIEN VERSTUYFT , Daniel Unger , Hendrik De Villiers and Stephan Vuckovic .

literature

  • Friedrich Wilhelm August Pott: History of the gymnastics community in Witten from 1848 to 1898 together with news about gymnastics clubs in the Lower Rhine and Westphalia . Witten 1898.
  • Dieter Langer (Ed.): 150 years of gymnastics and sport in Witten . Witten 1998.
  • 125 years of the Witten gymnastics community in 1848. Founded on August 13, 1848 . Witten 1973.
  • 141st Foundation Festival of the Witten Gymnastics Community in 1848 on November 12, 1988 . Witten 1988.
  • Heinrich Schoppmeyer : Witten. History of the village, town and suburbs . tape 1 . Association for local and regional studies in the Grafschaft Mark , Witten 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-040266-1 , p. 304-305, 311-314, 437, 513-514 .
  • Festival Committee (Ed.): Festival book for the XIV. Märkische Gauturnen combined with the 50th anniversary celebration of the Witten gymnastics community on July 2nd, 3rd and 4th, 1898 in Witten an der Ruhr . Witten 1898.
  • Festival book for the celebration of the 40th foundation festival of the gymnastics community in Witten (founded on August 13, 1848) combined with the gymnastics competition of the III. District of the Märkisches Turngau on July 28th and 29th, 1888 . Witten 1888.
  • Emil Brandstätter: Witten in the years 1848 and 1849 . In: Yearbook of the association for local and local history in the county of Mark . Volume 13, 1898–1899. Witten 1900, p. 136-147 .
  • Friedrich Wilhelm August Pott: History of the Louis Berger monument on the "Hohenstein" near Witten . In: Yearbook of the association for local and local history in the county of Mark . Volume 18, 1903–1904. Witten 1905, p. 74-102 .
  • Märkischer Turngau: 100 years of gymnastics in the Brandenburg area . Witten 1966.
  • Carl Franzen: How we got to our Jahnplatz . Photocopy of handwritten diary entries. May 1941 (in the VOHM archive : VOH-NLS 21-1 (Franzen estate)).
  • Exercise regulations Turner fire brigade Witten . Witten 1868.

Web links

Commons : Turngemeinde Witten from 1848  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Board of the main association. Turngemeinde Witten from 1848, accessed on June 26, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Oliver Schinkewitz: From the clubs. TG Witten is repositioning itself. WAZ , April 2, 2018, accessed April 3, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c d G. Haren: History of the voluntary fire brigade Witten . In: Festschrift for the 19th Westphalian Fire Brigade Association Festival . Märkische Druckerei und Verlagsanstalt Aug. Pott, Witten 1909, p. 19-48 .
  4. ↑ a b Witten professional fire brigade. So young and already so strong . In: Feuerwehr Magazin . No. 8 , 1988.
  5. ↑ a b Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the Witten Volunteer Fire Brigade (old town) . Witten 1963.
  6. ^ A b Paul Brandenburg, Karl-Heinz Hildebrand: Witten. Streets, paths, squares . With a contribution to the history of Witten settlement by Heinrich Schoppmeyer (=  contributions to the history of the city of Witten . Volume 1 ). Association for local and local history in the Grafschaft Mark , Witten 1989, ISBN 3-920611-13-6 ( street directory ( Memento from May 15, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed on December 27, 2012]).
  7. ^ Willi Keimer: History of the Witten gymnastics club (3rd episode) . In: WTV 1877 (Ed.): WTV 1877 . No. 4 . Witten 1987.
  8. ↑ a b Klaus-Dieter Kraus: On sports events during and after the war. Described using the example of the Witten gymnastics community from 1848 e. V. In: From chewing gum and school meals to effervescent powder. With contemporary image and text documentation from Witten an der Ruhr, as well as historical notes on this period of life and time. Memories childhood and adolescence . 1st edition. Paragon-Verlag, Bochum 2001, ISBN 3-932872-08-8 , p. 95 .
  9. ^ Heinrich Schoppmeyer: Witten. History of the village, town and suburbs . tape 2 . Association for local and regional studies in the Grafschaft Mark , Witten 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-040266-1 , p. 262 .
  10. ↑ Marylen Reschop: 50 years later. TG in the upper league. When handball was still playing outside. (No longer available online.) In: Ruhr Nachrichten . June 25, 2008, archived from the original on December 8, 2013 ; accessed on January 20, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Compact. 40 years ago. TG 1848 builds another tennis hall . In: WAZ . 20th October 2017.
  12. ↑ Ralf Baier: History of our department. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 2, 2018 ; accessed on January 8, 2019 .
  13. ^ Marius Hoff: Basketball. TG Witten. “Want to play for the championship”. WAZ , May 14, 2009, accessed December 1, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Jutta Bublies: Refugees. The first day in the Witten emergency accommodation. WAZ , July 23, 2015, accessed December 1, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Iris Bauer: Breaking news! Jahnstrasse sports complex. (No longer available online.) Turngemeinde Witten, July 2015, archived from the original on July 29, 2015 ; Retrieved July 12, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Janina Semenova: Refugees. Internet for refugees. Chat with home. Deutsche Welle , July 30, 2015, accessed October 1, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Turngemeinde Witten from 1848 e. V. - Gymnastics is fun! (No longer available online.) Turngemeinde Witten from 1848, archived from the original on March 21, 2018 ; accessed on October 20, 2017 .
  18. ^ Triathlon Team TG Witten. Retrieved April 3, 2017 .
  19. ↑ Top athletes of the asics Team Witten found a new club. (No longer available online.) Tri2b.com, October 5, 2003, archived from the original on January 10, 2004 ; Retrieved August 3, 2015 .
  20. ↑ Stadtwerke Team Witten. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 10, 2016 ; Retrieved April 3, 2017 .
  21. ↑ Bundesliga events from 1996 to today. (No longer available online.) German Triathlon Union , archived from the original on March 5, 2017 ; accessed on January 20, 2018 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 26 '48.9 "  N , 7 ° 19' 42.9"  E